Drug-Smuggling Super Tunnel Beneath U.S.-Mexico border
Law enforcement officials in San Diego recently discovered a “super tunnel” used to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico to an industrial park in San...
Turkey Could Face U.S. Sanctions Over China Deal
Many Turkish defense companies that would act as subcontractors on a $3.44 billion air defense contract with a Chinese company, may face U.S. sanctions...
Aerostat Systems Aid U.S. DHS Border Patrols
TCOM, the supplier of airborne persistent surveillance solutions, is supporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to improve U.S. Border Patrol operations in the...
Poland Supplies Arms to Mali
Poland is helping Mali to fight the Islamic rebels in its Northern region.
Poland’s Ministry of Defense has supplied arms to the Malian Army, the...
Israeli Company Plasan Opens New HLS Division
Plasan, Israeli developer of protective systems for vehicles, established a new division – the Security Division for HLS. The new division will offer integration...
Did the DHS Waste $1 Billion on Failed Screening Program?
The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) said recently that DHS may have wasted $1 billion on the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers...
Swedish UAV Used in Anti-Piracy Operation
Saab of Sweden reports its Skeldar unmanned aerial system is being operated from a Spanish navy vessel as part of anti-piracy operations in the...
U.S. Air Force Considers Using Less UAVs
Senior U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials are in the midst of a high-stakes debate about the future of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet...
U.S. Military Aims to Develop Small UAVs with EW Capabilities
Northrop Grumman reports its first integration of an internal, miniature electronic attack payload on a small unmanned aircraft system.
The company's Pandora payload, derived from...
New U.S. Army UAV Contracts
Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by the U.S. Army Rapid...
Turkey Moves to Keep Air Defense Competition Open to U.S., Europe
Turkey continues to juggle with its Western allies. After a stunning decision to select a Chinese contender to build Turkey’s first long-range air and...
New Sensor Payload for Unmanned and Manned Aircraft
Headwall Photonics Inc. in the U.S. is introducing the Micro-Hyperspec integrated airborne hyperspectral electro-optical sensor for manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
According to...
Guaranteeing that an Initial Deal with Iran Does Not Become the...
By Amos Yadlin
The dispute between Israel and the United States on the Iranian nuclear challenge emerged this week from behind closed doors and became...
U.S. Navy to Upgrade Fleet of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
U.S. Navy officials have asked Hydroid Inc. to repair and upgrade the Navy's fleet of MK 18 Kingfish unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), as well...
Smart Cloud Service Receives U.S. Government Authorization
IBM’s SmartCloud for Government, infrastructure as-a-service cloud platform, has been granted Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program...
U.S. Company Launches New High-Capacity Robotic Arm
CoroWare Technologies has announced availability for the CoroBot RA-144 robotic arm, a powerful robot arm that complements their CoroBot smart unmanned ground vehicle (Smart...
9900: The Israeli Satellite Intelligence Unit
The famous British philosopher and strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, who coined the term “indirect approach strategy”, used to say that “the deepest...
Does Israel Have Veto Power Over An Agreement With Iran?
By Zaki Shalom
On November 8, shortly before meeting U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, Prime Minister Netanyahu made it clear that Israel totally opposed...
New U.S. Awards to Robotics Researchers
Robotic rotorcraft for inspecting bridges and other infrastructures, tools for minimally invasive surgery that guide surgeons by creating 3D maps of internal organs, and...
Stuxnet Virus Detected in Russian Nuclear Facility
Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Antivirus has revealed that a staffer at a Russian nuclear plant informed him that the infection that was introduced to...
U.S. Army to Develop Battlefield Biological Detection System
U.S. Army researchers are preparing to asking industry to design a lightweight, low cost, man-portable, battery-operated system to detect, collect, and identify biological pathogens...
U.S. Army to Develop Soldier-Worn Power-Management Systems
Experts at Protonex Technology Corp. in Southborough, Mass., will develop soldier-worn power-management systems under terms of a $2.2 million contract from the Army Natick...
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